The cards are made from actual panels of vintage comics such as Amazing Spider-Man #2. The Marvel Ultimate Collection Panel Focus insert cards, as they are called, will be the rarest cards in the set, at one per case. The series also includes sketch and autograph cards by a raft of creators, including Stan Lee, Mark Waid, Kurt Busiek, and Brian Michael Bendis; these will occur with a frequency of one per box.

The question is whether it would be worth some entrepreneur’s while to buy up all the cards, pull out the panel focus cards, and piece together their own Frankenstein-like copy of Amazing Spider-Man #2. Probably not, but it’s fun to think about.

Charles H. Bryan

Nick H.

I hope they used damaged copies too. But the bright side for people who own copies of the vintage comics Upper Deck use for this is that, with these copies being taken out of the market, the value of the remaining ones may go up.

Good on Upper Deck. As long as Marvel has a way to reprint the comics at will, I’d rather see an original be unreadable because someone chopped it up into neat little cards than because some nerd hermetically sealed it in plastic.